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Sunday with the Dessies

Alice leaves us today to drive home Ohio after far too short a stay. Then I pretty much disappear from the Dessie scene today, with a personal commitment, so everyone else has to have fun without me.

Perry takes Linda, Betty, Sulie and Karen to find a polo match north of Toronto. Here is Linda’s report stolen from her facebook page:

DES member Perry Palmer is a lifetime aficionado of polo and we couldn’t find the big polo match in the Ontario countryside, but did happen upon practice chukkas (hope that’s the way to do the plural). Perry gave us Polo 101 and it was so much fun to see that the ponies know how to play polo and avidly follow the ball even with total newbies in control. Wow.

the players

THEN we came back to Toronto and ate Spicy Indian food and went to the Textile Museum. As Perry tried to get into the parking lot the gatekeeper kept saying to us: Adam Sandler! Adam Sandler! We were stymied by this and thought we were mishearing, but finally ignored him and parked. Then we saw huge semi-trucks and paraphernalia and there may or may not be an Adam Sandler film in progress. It turns out that there are secret code words that these movie people use to throw people off the trail. My theory is that the parking attendant thought that we were arriving old lady stand-ins.

Jerri and Susan M took the ferry to the Toronto Islands.

Ferry to Toronto Islands

Susan enjoyed looking at the old cottages on Ward’s Island, and then Jerri found her way to the Centreville Amusement Park, where she delighted in riding the antique merry-go-round, selecting an Ostrich for her mount, because it’s a Thirkell thing.

Jerri’s selfie with Ostrich

When we’re all back at Neill-Wycik, we have a challenge round of Kim’s Game, DES style, arranged by Kristi and me. Not only do Dessies have to remember the items, they have to explain the significance of each one.

Kim’s Game

Time for presents. Tricia is given a lovely scarf from the Textile Museum, as a thank you for all the games and presents she’s made for us, including our crocheted necklaces and hats, and I am presented with a pair of magnifying lornettes and some book-buying booty.

Thanks everyone. You’re all so sweet.

Monday: One of our group stays in Toronto; the rest are off to the wilds of Guelph and Minden, two major Ontario hot spots. We use noodles.